The Tower, Trump XVI,
represents revelation, the sudden flash of
insight that tells you that all that you believed to that point
was wrong.

I tried several different verions of this concept before this one,
some were rejected for practical reasons, other for artistic. I had
one concept that had simply too many items to fit withing the
format and stil be distinguishable. The last thing I wanted was
yet another crenelated tower!

I had a concept for using a photo of the collapse of the Tacoma
Narrows bridge that I really liked, but the only available photos
of it are from grainy, poor quality 1940 newsreel film. It would have
taken the combined image-inhancement facilities of NASA and the CIA
to make it look presentable.

Finally, after lots of trial and error (mostly error) I arrived at
the current design, a stock lightening photo with three dorje in the
foreground.

The Dorje is a Tibetan Buddhist ritual implement that is held by the
chief lama during meditation sessions. It is intended to be the
lightning bolt of enlightment, dispite its rather un-lightning-like
appearance.